{"id":185221,"date":"2025-08-29T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:14:11","slug":"turkey-closes-airspace-to-israeli-planes-over-war-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185221\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey closes airspace to Israeli planes over war in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL (AP) \u2014 Turkey announced Friday it was closing its airspace to Israeli government planes and any cargo of arms for the Israeli military while closing its ports to maritime trade between third countries and Israel.<\/p>\n

The announcement by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan came on top of a ban on direct trade between Turkey and Israel announced in May of 2024. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have completely cut off our trade with Israel. We have closed our ports to Israeli ships,\u201d Fidan told a special parliamentary debate on Gaza in Ankara. \u201cWe do not allow container ships carrying weapons and ammunition to Israel to enter our ports, nor do we allow aircraft to enter our airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ankara has been a harsh critic of Israeli attacks on Gaza, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> repeatedly referring to Israel\u2019s actions as genocide<\/a> and likening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler.<\/p>\n

Turkey severed direct trade ties<\/a> with Israel in May last year, demanding a permanent ceasefire and the immediate entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza. In 2023 the two countries carried out $7 billion in trade.<\/p>\n

Turkish media reported last week that a ban on maritime traffic linked to Israel had been imposed, although there was no official statement at the time. <\/p>\n

Last November, Turkish authorities denied permission for Israeli President Isaac Herzog\u2019s plane to enter Turkey\u2019s airspace for a trip to an international summit in Azerbaijan. \u201cAs Turkey, we have to take a stance on certain issues,\u201d Erdogan later said when asked about the incident.<\/p>\n

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Find more of AP\u2019s Israel-Hamas coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL (AP) \u2014 Turkey announced Friday it was closing its airspace to Israeli government planes and any cargo…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":185222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,32305,372,4526,57,18890,104044,49970,99,3462,373,3463,8132,50,80,32307,24922,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-185221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-ankara","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-gaza-strip","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-genocide","14":"tag-hakan-fidan","15":"tag-isaac-herzog","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-government","18":"tag-israel-hamas-war","19":"tag-mideast-wars","20":"tag-military-and-defense","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","24":"tag-turkey","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115113418481808996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}